Amitai Etzioni | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business
The Obama Administration is planning to start cutting the deficit soon. Even merely to discuss tax raises, expenditure cuts, and the increases in interest rates that are entailed will slow the recovery.
Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
People are saying that health care reform is going to break the bank. No. Health care costs are what might bankrupt us. I am all in favor of reducing those, but railing against the cost of reform while ignoring all the rest is willful ignorance.
Jay Mandle | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
The next great political fight will be over a post-recession reduction in government spending in the name of narrowing the gap between government revenues and expenditures.
Robert Reich | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
The optimist in me says Obama can pivot off a health-care victory and launch some new initiatives that palpably and quickly spur job growth. The realist says there aren't any such initiatives.
Zachary Karabell | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
With China now accounting for nearly $1 trillion of American debt, the U.S. can't simply insist that it do something about its currency and expect action. Geithner has been right in not publicly calling out China.
Bob Burnett | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
It's been nine months since Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. Time enough to grade the job he's done and consider...
Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
Despite the excitement over the stock markets, credit markets remain ground zero. They are where defaults destroy fortunes but they are also crucial to US industrial growth.
Capital Gains and Games | Stan Collender | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Despite the headlines and the page-one, right-hand column, above-the-fold stories in the New York Times and Washington Post on Saturday, I'm not at al...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke called Monday for the United States to whittle down its record-high budget deficits and for c...
nytimes.com | MICHAEL COOPER | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
Businesses that got stimulus contracts directly from the federal government reported creating or saving 30,383 jobs so far, according to data publishe...
Henry Blodget | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business
We had the White House's Christina Romer on TechTicker this week. She says the president's "not cool" with our huge deficits.
Alan Schram | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
The argument for a massive spending increase as economic stimulus makes the assumption that spending is the source of our prosperity. Based on that false assumption, it's easy to arrive at the wrong conclusion.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
Contrary to what some have told us in the past, deficits and debts do matter, and at the levels these debts have been accumulating, they matter a lot.
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living
In 1946, Harry Truman said, "A nation is only as healthy as its children." What have we done to ours?
Paul A. London | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business
Many Republicans know this "deficits will kill us" stuff is bull. The country can afford to spend money to put Americans back to work, just as surely as it could afford to spend money to fight World War II.
Dean Baker | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business
There seems to be a bipartisan consensus that completely missing the biggest economic calamity in almost 80 years doesn't call into question your competence as an economic analyst. This should scare people.
AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama began a week that will dwell heavily on overhauling the health care system, declaring himself confident Cong...
David Paul | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
For two decades now, we have become accustomed to justifying any manner of spending, from education to tax cuts, as an investment in our future.
Vanessa Carmichael | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
While many in the heartland fashion themselves as fiscally conservative, the reality of federal spending tells a different story.
David Sirota | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
When it comes to aiding regular people who haven't bought members of Congress, every argument -- and especially deficits -- are cited as reasons to do nothing.
Dean Baker | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
Does Robert Rubin know that his strong dollar policy directly contradicts his fixation with low budget deficits? Either he is ignorant of the fundamentals of economics or he is dishonest.
Jill Schlesinger | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
The former investment adviser in me says that rather than fight the concept, embrace higher taxes as a likelihood and adjust your life as much as possible.
Joe Cirincione | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
Maddow will not let former officials dodge responsibility for launching an unnecessary war in Iraq. Why do other journalists?
Josh Bivens | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
Another economic shoe will drop when the government announces new federal budget projections. Whatever the number is, it'll be interpreted as a reason to abandon or delay health care reform.
Robert Reich | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business